The Cartel - New Jersey Charter Schools

This clip from the documentary film, "The Cartel", by Bob Bowdon, discusses Charter Schools in New Jersey.

For more information, visit the film's website:
http://www.TheCartelMovie.com

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• charter schools
• the cartel
• bob bowdon
• education
• teacher
• principal
• superintendent
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• student
• classroom

[danielschamber62]

Did anyone else notice that both schools were compared to the whole district in the proficiency scores instead of comparable public schools. A well produced infomercial but you should be able to see through its fallacies. If not you might want to see the much better produced infomercial "Waiting for Superman".

Oh by the way did you know charter schools are for profit schools That means they cut costs to raise profits.

[BowdonMedia]

@danielschamber62

"Instead of comparable public schools"? Not sure what you mean. Are you saying the comparison should have pitted the charter against one of Newark's best schools? Or one of its worst schools? By using the district average, we're making a much fairer comparison than either of those other options.

We use the same approach, by the way, as the comparisons in "Waiting for Superman," which we agree, is an excellent film. :)

The charter schools in "The Cartel" are non-profit!

[claysurfer78]

Choose? they showed the random raffle on who gets in.. did you not watch the documentary your commenting on? typical... why are you fighting for a system that NEEDS to be torn down! its like every other government ... non constitutional wast of money that Liberal special interests trap the US people into depending on! if there was one person that i could to blame i would spit in there face and send them to prison for the rest of there life!

[ninuxy]

The problem with charters are that they get to "choose" which student is admitted into their program. So even if the entering student had scored lower in previous public school, and if there is a potential for improvement because of her untapped talent due to the atmosphere of school, he or she is being taken out of that environment. I want to see charter school being implemented in place of an existing school with the same students and teachers, then compare them against the same old school.

[abcwritestartread]

Teachers are only as great as the curriculum they are mandated to use. Public schools MUST use district mandated curriculum. Teachers NEVER pick their curriculum. The district "curriculum experts" choose the curriculum. These "experts" use trendy curriculum in our public schools, often without any research backing. Often they cut "deals" with publishers and this is why they use the junk. Teachers often HATE these choices because they know they won't work, but they HAVE no choice.

[donnygoat]

Winners make commitments... Losers make promises.

[danielschamber62]

@WhoreOmega Did anyone else notice that both schools were compared to the whole district in the proficiency scores instead of comparable public schools. A well produced infomercial but you should be able to see through its fallacies. If not you might want to see the much better produced infomercial "Waiting for Superman".

Oh by the way did you know charter schools are for profit schools That means they cut costs to raise profits.

[brotherted]

@WhoreOmega

Let's see 17%+46% = 63% of Charter schools are either better than or equal to district schools even though they receive CONSIDERABLY LESS MONEY per student?

And yet somehow, despite the much lower funding, 2/3rds of charters still perform the same or better, making the lower funding disadvantage "disappear"? (According to your own numbers.)

Thanks for the endorsement of charter schools!

[WhoreOmega]

The single most in-depth study on charter schools found that:

- 17% of charters did better then public schools

- 46% did the same

- 37% of charters are worse then public schools

Charters are worse then public schools.

[SeleccionesMundiales]

How do kids get placed into charter school lotteries? By the parents that are involved?